My knitting club did a Secret Santa Gift exchange this year. Many months ago we picked names out of a wine glass and I selected Tara. Tara has a jersey wooly named Izze. She is such an adorable little bunny. Tara has always had rabbits growing up and I knew off the bat that I wanted to make something with angora rabbit yarn for her gift. I had a hard time tracking down the yarn, so with the help of my mother and my sister Liz they visited Twisted Knitting & Spinning in New Hope, PA. They found angora yarn and they help decided what color Tara would like best I was on the phone the whole time. I was actually driving through the Safari at Great Adventure. I remember I was parked by the kangaroos and the boys were getting a kick out of watching the baby kangaroos going inside and out of their mother's pouches. Totally unrelated, but I thought I'd share that anyway.
They returned from their trip and I couldn't wait to start knitting. I was totally unprepared for how allergic I was to the yarn! I was sneezing my head off. So I showed my other sister Leanne the two inches of the cowl I had made and asked if she thought it was worth me suffering to continue. She grabbed the cowl and gasped and said Tara is going to love it. So I know I needed to keep going. I found if I worked on it outside while my boys played on the swingset I didn't sneeze nearly as much. So I was able to get it done.
Last night we exchanged our gifts and Tara loved it. Phew I'm glad.
I am joining along with Ginny's Yarn Along
4 comments:
That's dedication! Well done on completing it!
So warm and fuzzy looking! Love the way you photographed it as well.
Awww. too bad you were allergic to the yarn, I am sure it was super soft and so glad your sacrifice paid off.
cute pic. so now you know to never get an angora bunny as a pet ;)
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